Rate My Professor Tracy Everbach

Tracy Everbach is a Professor in the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas, teaching in Print and Digital within the Communications discipline. She earned a Ph.D. in Journalism from the University of Missouri in 2004, a Master of Arts in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000, and a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Boston University in 1984. With 14 years of professional experience as a newspaper reporter, Everbach spent 12 years at The Dallas Morning News covering crime, courts, county government, and social services. Her in-depth projects addressed domestic violence and juvenile killers, and she reported on major events including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 1993 federal raid on the Branch Davidian complex in Waco. She also worked two years at the Boston Herald. Before arriving at UNT, she taught journalism writing, reporting, and mass media classes for two years at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. At UNT, Everbach served as the former faculty adviser to the North Texas Daily, the student newspaper. She has headed the Commission on the Status of Women for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and is the founder and head of the UNT Women's Faculty Network. She has also held roles such as Academic Integrity Liaison.

Everbach's academic interests and research specializations encompass gender and race in media, newsroom management, and sports coverage. Her teaching portfolio includes writing and reporting, race, gender and media, and graduate classes in media studies and qualitative research. She has published extensively in scholarly journals such as Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal, Southwestern Mass Communication Journal, Journal of Research on Women and Gender, American Journalism, Media Report to Women, and Columbia Journalism Review. Notable works include co-authoring Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology & Harassment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), which examines gender-based harassment online, and co-editing Testing Tolerance: Addressing Controversy in the Journalism and Mass Communication Classroom (AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women, 2020), offering practical guidance on classroom discussions of sensitive topics like sexual assault, racial inequality, #MeToo, and mental health. Other key publications feature 'Monica Lewinsky and Shame: 1998 Newspaper Framing of "That Woman"' (Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2017). Her honors include the UNT Presidents Council Service Award (2019), Donna Allen Award for Feminist Advocacy (AEJMC, 2019), 2023 Educator of the Year Award (Southwest Education Journalism Conference), and professional accolades such as the Carole Kneeland Award from the Texas Governor's Commission on Women and the PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.